E-Cigarette Juice Poisoned Another Kid
Screencap via Mankato Local CBS News. Thumbnail via Flickr User Lauri Rantala The four-year-old son of an Oklahoma City woman named Ren Gaulrapp recently got into her supply of e-ciagrette juice and...
View ArticleWhy Is the Secret Service So Drunk All the Time?
Some Secret Service agents in uniform who are not drunk. Photo via Flickr user Edward Kimmel Among the many indignities visited upon America’s first black president, we can now add one more: His...
View ArticleVICE Loves Magnum: How Photographer David Hurn Captures Sublime Moments in...
Arizona, 1980. An outdoor fitness group in the retirement community of Sun City does exercises early in the morning. The oldest participant was a 94-year-old who had run a 50-second hundred meters in...
View ArticleEating Is Bad for Your Soul
Jains meditating. Photo via Wiki Commons In prehistoric times, humans had to hunt for dinner with big rocks—or run away from it when it didn’t die off—if they wanted to survive another day....
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: There's No Such Thing as 'Selfie Addiction'
Mr. Pimp Goodgame, king of the Instagram selfie Recently, the assembled hacks at the Sunday Mirror’s headquarters were deciding how best to cover the story of Danny Bowman, a teenager diagnosed with...
View ArticleStoners Now Have Their Own Cryptocurrency: PotCoin
Stoners Now Have Their Own Cryptocurrency: PotCoin
View ArticleThe North Korean Haircut Mandate Is Totally on Brand
Photo via Flickr User petersnoopy According to some tenuous reports, Kim Jong-un issued a mandate two weeks ago that all university students in North Korea must get his haircut, reinforcing that...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Twelve Things 'Noah' Got Wrong
As a Catholic school student for nine and half years and an altar boy for the first half of those years, I know a thing or two about the best-selling work of fiction known as the Bible. And just like...
View ArticleThe Insane Rage of College Basketball Coaches
UNC coach Roy Williams showing displeasure at a game in 2007. Photo via Flickr user kevin813 The NCAA basketball tournament isn’t quite the “One Shining Moment” montage CBS would have you believe it...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Broadway, Baby
So you want to know what it’s like to put up a play on Broadway? I’ll tell ya. But, I should note, the way a classic play is put on (specifically John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, in which I am...
View ArticleCan Corporations Find God? Supreme Court Justices Seem to Think So
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The relentless litigation of Obamacare returned to the Supreme Court this week, when justices heard oral arguments in the controversial Hobby Lobby case. The case hinges on...
View ArticleThe One Person Young Thug Follows on Instagram Tried to Fly Me to Dubai in...
The One Person Young Thug Follows on Instagram Tried to Fly Me to Dubai in Exchange for Sex
View ArticleWhat Actually Happens to Donated Clothes?
For Adam Baruchowitz, every t-shirt tells a story—whether or not he wants to hear it. “People want to explain to you every item, like ‘this is the shirt I lost my virginity in,’” said the 41-year-old...
View ArticleI'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Life'
It’s strange, I only think about the big ideas when I’m down in the dumps or high on some drug. I'm never just eating pasta at dinner and thinking what does it all mean? If that was the case, it’d be...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Do People Have the Right to be Bigots?
Attorney-General George Brandis. Image via. Australia's Attorney-General, George Brandis, this week extolled the virtues of free speech, telling parliament that “people do have a right to be bigots,...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Nick Cannon Wore Whiteface and I Cried
Photo via Instagram Welcome to the White People Party Music edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST”...
View ArticleState Senator’s Arrest Reveals Alleged Ties to Chinese Gangster Underground...
State Senator’s Arrest Reveals Alleged Ties to Chinese Gangster Underground Society
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Caprock Academy The incident: A girl shaved her head to support her friend with cancer. The...
View ArticleNighttime of the City
Illustrations by Domitille Collardey. Story © Robert Coover, published with permission. Robert Coover is a brilliant fiction writer who's best known for the classic, The Public Burning. His new novel,...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Stop Sending Your T-Shirts to Africa
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Nigerian American journalist Dayo Olopade to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent:...
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